“He answered both of them”
Great video, great lady: I also love it when she says to the reporter, “I know exactly what happened here. Exactly.”
Continue reading →Category Archives: Disaster
Oklahoma…
…disaster. This tornado looks very bad, but reports of casualties are just coming in. Much of the town of Moore has been destroyed, including the hospital. One possible consolation is that, according to Fox (which I’m watching on TV right … Continue reading →
Bad explosion near Waco
Horrific explosion in a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, with many injured and many feared dead. I am not a conspiracist. And this is, after all, a fertilizer plant. Fertilizer is highly explosive, and I don’t see why a fertilizer … Continue reading →
Rescue 911: toddler plunge
Here’s another in my series of old “Rescue 911” segments. I notice that these haven’t gotten much commentary here. I don’t know how many of you watch them, but I continue to find them fascinating as well as incredibly moving. … Continue reading →
“In New York we have rats the size of chihuahuas”
More Rescue 911. Old, but still very topical:
Continue reading →Ever heard of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755?
The topics of the 1918 flu pandemic and the Lisbon earthquake came up yesterday in this discussion thread, which sparked a train of thought for me. The very first time I read about the flu epidemic was when I was … Continue reading →
“I didn’t like the idea of being a dead hero”
More Rescue 911:
Continue reading →“I missed my mommy…My hands were all wrinkly…they weren’t like my human hands.”
More from one of my favorite old TV shows, “Rescue 911”:
Continue reading →“What are you going to do? You gonna stand there and watch it go by?”
More from the old Rescue 911, one of my favorite TV shows of all time:
Continue reading →Sandy aftermath
Obama had a nice lovefest with Christie, but now it’s hard to turn on the news without seeing continuing scenes of devastation in New York and New Jersey, Obama country. It underscores the very considerable difference between reality and photo-ops. … Continue reading →
Should Northeast power lines be buried?
And the answer is: maybe. [Hat tip: Instapundit.]
Continue reading →Obama and that Katrina vote
Commenter “Ken” points out something I hadn’t been aware of before: Obama was one of a small minority in the Senate who voted against the bill that waived the Stafford Act in order to make assistance funds available to the … Continue reading →